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Continuing the successful tradition from the last few years, we at SirStevesGuide.com are doing Year in Review differently from others by opening it up to everybody to participate. Come check out the SSG Collecting 2013 Year in Review, where some of the staff give their takes on 2013 in Star Wars, then add your voice to the conversation.
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This one is bound to get some fans a little hot under the collar. It seems that Disney is going to start cherry-picking what is and isn't definitive Star Wars canon from all sources, the new movies all being canon and the EU having little place in it.

The Lucasfilm Story Group, including official Holocron-Keeper Leland Chee and author Pablo Hidalgo, will decide what aspects - past and present - will be part of Star Wars' new approach at a singular canon and what aspects are not.
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Tonight on Spike TV (Jan 10th at 10/9 central) is the premiere of 10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty, a reality contest show hosted by Dean Cain where teams of contestants search the woods for that other big walking carpet. One of the teams of 2 is a pair of Star Wars fans, Rictor Riolo and Dax Rushlow - pictured using FX Lightsabers as part of their hunt for Bigfoot... yes, you just read that right, using lightsabers to track the legendary Sasquatch.

Fans all saw the writing on the wall last year when Lucasfilm was sold to the Walt Disney Company, who also owns Marvel Comics, but now it's official: come 2015, Star Wars comics and graphic novels will be published by Marvel Comics again, roughly 29 years after Marvel's last Star Wars comic was published. Here's the official press release:

Random House has revealed how they are releasing the excellent archival content that was teased at San Diego Comic-Con this summer, they are making it available via the 3 Making of Star Wars, Empire, and Jedi eBooks - "enhanced eBooks" as they are calling it - and the eBooks have just been released for sale.

This is a bit of a challenging way to do it, the content will be accessible only through select tablet and mobile devices: Apple iPads; the Amazon Kindle app for Apple mobile devices, Kindle Fire tablets, Nook HD and Tablets*; and the Google Play Books Reader for Android
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Star Wars Rebels, the next cartoon in the Star Wars universe, had what looks to have been an amazing panel at New York Comic Con recently. The series takes place between the prequels and the OT, and has a look that relies nicely on Ralph McQuarrie's concept art among other things. TIE Fighters, Stormtroopers, walkers, spaceships, speeder bikes, new worlds, and so much more is coming alive in the next year as the series comes to production, and each one looks
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Concept art, gameplay experience, and story details are revealed on the hotly-anticipated video game, Star Wars 1313, and the biggest detail is that it was set to star Boba Fett. Unfortunately, with the sale of Lucasfilm and Lucasarts to Disney, the SW1313 game appears to be shelved permanently. But IGN was given a look at an extended demo of SW1313, and while they cannot show the actual video, they have a detailed breakdown of what was seen.

This one is as much for the web-nerds out there as it is the Star Wars geeks, but the fact that someone recreated the A New Hope 1977-version crawl using only HTML, CSS, Javascript and a couple handy files (the SW logo as a graphic and the opening theme audio) is darned impressive.

Tim Pietrusky, a web developer in Germany, was looking to find a web version of the crawl, but since none existed like this, he considered the code gauntlet slapped down and took up the challenge.
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The LEGO Group and Lucasfilm have announced that LEGO Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles, featuring the hit animated specials "The Phantom Clone" and "Menace of the Sith," will release on DVD this October. The two original 22-minute specials offer brand new epic adventures with everyone's favorite LEGO Star Wars characters. Distributed by
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It's on like con! Yes, the end of SW Celebration Europe II announced the venue and date for the next SW Celebration, and it's Anaheim for April 16-19th, 2015.

This one may not come as a shock to observant fans, but with Disney buying Lucasfilm and releasing a new Star Wars movie in 2015, they've now announced that the next Star Wars Celebration convention will be in Anaheim, California, home to the Disneyland resort. Corporate synergy at its finest.

JediTempleArchives.com has put together a comprehensive look at The Vintage Collection. The main attraction is JTA polling 19 separate Star Wars fans sites to create a fantastic top 25 list for the brand (and we're not just saying that because we were included); but there's also an amazing image compiling all the line's carded figures, another of all of them loose; and if that wasn't cool enough also some Hasbro Star Wars brand key players' top 20 TVC figures
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At this year's Comic Con International in San Diego, we were given the opportunity to interview the heads of Hasbro's Star Wars brand, Derryl DePriest and Jeff Labovitz. The 10-minute interview was packed with conversation despite the Hasbro booth being a madhouse, to one side of us was Ray Park signing autographs to a giant crowd, the other side was a group of costumed Star Wars characters with the life-sized Han Solo Carbonite, and in between was the giant Angry Birds Star Wars 2 Telepods interactive display. But Derryl, Jeff and I powered through the distractions and insanity, Jeff displaying an especially deft manner when a convention-goer tried to hand Jeff a camera to snap a photo during our interview and Jeff shut that down without missing a beat. So here are the fruits of those labors.
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars may have finished production, but at Sunday's Daytime Emmy Awards, the voters nominated The Clone Wars with 7 nominations, and the peer panel for the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honored the animated series with an award for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program, as well as one for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for David Tennant's guest performance.

Exactly 6 years to the day following the release of the original Star Wars film at the Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Episode VI - Return of the Jedi was released up a block east on the opposite side of the street at the Grauman's Egyptian Theater. Of course, by then, the Star Wars film series was incredibly popular, and after the incredible Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi was hotly anticipated so it opened in a thousand other theaters across the nation as well, and was
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News just in from Lucasfilm and Disney reports on a new animated Star Wars tv show, Star Wars Rebels. The Clone Wars showrunner Dave Filoni will be executive producer on this series, along with Greg Weisman (Gargoyles, Young Justice) and Simon Kinberg (Ep VII, X-Men First Class, Sherlock Holmes). The show will take place between Episode III and IV, it will be CG and will borrow from Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie's iconic designs. Star Wars Rebels will air on Disney XD with a one-hour special on Disney Channel first, and is looking to release in fall of 2014. More details and a video below.
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Anthony Daniels, the actor behind C-3PO, the golden protocol droid that was a central character in all six Star Wars movies, is scheduled to attend Star Wars Celebration Europe July 26-28 in Essen, Germany. Daniels will be attending the weekend fan festival to sign autographs and meet fans in the Celebration Autograph Hall as well as appear on the main Celebration
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